Plaything

OpenAL is a cross-platform 3D audio API appropriate for use with gaming applications and many other types of audio applications.

Plaything is tiny API wrapper around OpenAL, and makes it easy to play raw (PCM) streaming audio through your speakers.

Plaything was initially written to support audio playback from the spotify gem.

Note about the OpenAL bindings

Plaything contains bindings to a subset of the OpenAL API, just enough to cover the necessary streaming functionality. With little further work, the OpenAL bindings could be extracted and further developed indepdendently of Plaything.

Additionally, the OpenAL streaming source is retrievable from Plaything, and allows you to modify parameters on the playback source, such as pitch, gain, and anything else OpenAL allows you to change.

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Kim Burgestrand

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.